Efficient transfer of antibiotic resistance plasmids by transduction within methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 clone

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 332, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 146-152

  Varga, Marian ^a   Kuntová, Lucie ^a   Pantůček, Roman ^a   Mašlaňová, Ivana ^a   Růžičková, Vladislava ^a   Doškař, Jiří ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial drug resistance; Horizontal gene transfer; Lysogeny; Penicillinase plasmids; Plasmid transduction; Staphylococcus bacteriophage

Indexed keywords

PENICILLINASE; PLASMID DNA; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM TRANSDUCTION; CELL LYSATE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PLASMIDS; PROPHAGES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84862626918     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2012.02589.x     Document Type: Letter

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